Improvement in car-couplings



I"UNITED STATES;

. To all whom it may concern:

A `opening inside of the bumper.

standard, whichis secured upon the draw-head PATENT DEFICE.

i ALEXANDER WQNDERLY, 0E PALisADE,- NEVADA.

' iMPRovl-:MEINT IN cAR-couPLlNes.-

specification fopmingpm of .Lea-,ers paient No. 15s-,6cm dma .yummy r2, refs-: application med" 1 Be it known that I, ALEXANDEEWONDER- LY. of Palisade, Eureka county, State of vNevada, have invented an' Improved Oar-Coupling; and 'I do herebygdeclarethe following .description and accompanying drawings are vsufficient to enable any person skilled in the art .or science to which it most 'nearly appertai'ns to make and use my said invention or' improvement Without further invention or experiment.

My invention .relates to certainV improvements upon the car-coupling for which-Letters Patent No. 149,624,and dated April' 14, 1874 were granted to me.

My improvements- 'are fully Aexplained in the following description, reference being had to'the drawings accompanying this specification, in-Which f t vFigure 14 is a perspective'view of my coup,- ling. Fig. 2 is a transverse section. Fig. 3 is a'horizontal section.

A is the metallic butter, which is provided, as described in my former patent, with a ver- .tical slot or opening at each side, in which .the dogs 4b b are secured, so as to extenfl through the sides of the'buier, and partially across the opening inside vof it. Instead of hin gin g .these dogs at their lower end, so that their upper endswill fall outward by gravity, as described in my' former patent, l secure them by. a pivot at `the upper ends of the slots. The upper ends-ot` the (logs I, extend above the' draw-head ashort distance, as shown at c c, so that by pressing these projecting ends toward each other, lthe lower ends of the dogs will be forced apart, and consequently be withdrawnfrom-across the link- D is a short midway between the upward-projectingv ends c cof` the dogs b b, and av sufficient distance in rear of them to permit a lever, E, to be interposed between them. This lever is'pivoted a. short distance from one end to the standard D, and has two-pins, e e, projecting from it in the proper position to allowone of them to enter an angular slot, o, in the extension c of september 16,1874.'V

the pins which move in. them are on opposite sides of the point or fulcrum-of the vlever E, the dogs will-be moved in opposite directions by raising andV loweringthe lever. -When the handleof the lever is down, the dogs will be closed int'o'the buii'er-head so as to stand partially across the linkopening,.and as the outer end of the lever is raised, the action of the pins on the angular sl'ots will force their lower ends apart, so as to withdraw them from across the opening.l The weight of the outer end ot' the lever will be sufcientfto keep the dogsl closed.

"lhe link which I use vis the same as described in my former patent-that is, a:bar

having an. oval pointedr head-at each lend-so that when it enters the buffer-head4 forcibly,A the dogs b b will bevforced outward, so as to let the link-head pass. 'The weight of the` outer end ofthe lever will then close the dogsY upon the bar,so as to' retain the head inside` of the bumper. 1 To release thelink'it is only necessary to raise the outer end ot' the-lever E, so ,as to separate'the' dog and -free the 1nk Y lIt willbe readily seen that I thus l c1aim,'and desire to secure by Letters Patent',

The dogs b b, pivoted or hingedin the' upper end of the slots in the sides of the bntffer-head, each of which .has an angularlyslotted extension, c, in combination with the lever E, having its fulcrum between the extended ends of -said dogs, and the pins c c, to

operate'in theangular slot o, substantially 'as and for the purpose described.

In witness whereof I hereunto set-my hand and seal.

ALEXANDER WONDEELY. p.. s]

Witnesses-z WILL N. RABB'ir'rs, W. M. FALES. 

